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by freetime2 1031 days ago
This isn't drinking water, though. This is the concentration in water that is going to be discharged into the ocean and rapidly diluted even further (1 - 2 Bq/L within a few km of where it's being discharged, and difficult to distinguish from background levels in the ocean beyond that [1]).

And as the article notes, there are active Nuclear power plants in France and China (and South Korea [2]) that discharge even more tritium per year than is planned at Fukushima. Should people also be cautious about eating seafood from those regions as well?

[1] https://www.meti.go.jp/english/earthquake/nuclear/decommissi...

[2] https://www.kns.org/files/pre_paper/17/173%EC%86%A1%EA%B7%9C...